it's not really a movieable format, it's a short story collection. there's no narrative throughline. it'd be like making a movie out of i, robot.

as for a tv series, maybe an anthology, but it still wouldn't fit the modern narrative formula. the stories are myths, not dramas, so the characters don't have personalities or relationships and there's no rising action. it could theoretically be done correctly, but not in the hollywood paradigm. more likely they'd invent **** whole cloth to make an hbo-style soap opera like got.

Silmarillion could be an episodic TV series, but not a movie - it's really not a single story.

I remember trying to read it years ago, it felt like I needed to have a notebook with me drawing out family trees and timelines and stuff. I loved the hobbit and LOTR growing up (way back before the movies made that only fairly nerdy), but the Silmarillion was a struggle.

In interviews after the Hobbit it was pretty apparent that with the various lawsuits + Del Toro backing out Peter Jackson didn't have enough time to do the prep that he had compared to LotR. Rings had years of development where the Hobbit didn't even have a full year of Jackson at the helm if I remember right.

Dito.

When you watch the third movie you think "damn... Jackson did planned this one with the proper time...", for its the best of the trilogy

The Silmarillion is already tedious waffle so maybe they will do it backwards and make it good.

I started reading it when I was 11 or 12 (after Hobbit + rings) and just could not get into it. It's still on my bookshelf somewhere, no doubt with a 30 something year old corner turned over just waiting for me.

Would need to be TV or no attempt what so every to make the whole thing, but stories from. There are lots of good movies worth of stuff there, but with often with centuries of time that passes between each story.

Movie wouldn't work. The Silmarillion is a collection of short(ish) stories. It would be better as a 1-hour weekly miniseries. Just pull the 8 most "TV-ready" stories out of it and give them each a solid hour with the same production levels as LOTR.

“We are delighted that Amazon, with its longstanding commitment to literature, is the home of the first-ever multi-season television series for The Lord of the Rings,” said Matt Galsor, a representative for the Tolkien Estate and Trust and HarperCollins. “Sharon [Tal Yguado, Head of Scripted Series] and the team at Amazon Studios have exceptional ideas to bring to the screen previously unexplored stories based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s original writings.”